The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad featured Walter White reciting the poem, first published in 1818, while a ...

If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still efficacious to remember bits and pieces, to treasure up and produce at need. Into every life, at some time or other, will surely ...

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Watchmen‘s third episode and Lady Trieu. HBO “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Adrian Veidt took his superhero name from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ...

Percy Shelly’s 1818 poem “Ozymandias” conveys a timeless message, as important today as it was the day it was published. The poet tells of a man who saw the ruined statue of a once-powerful king in ...

Percy Bysshe Shelly turned the despot Ozymandias into a memorable sonnet about tyranny and time. Inspired by the poem, sculptor Douglas Kornfeld created a monumental red figure named Ozymandias that ...

AMC has released yet another promo for the final episodes of "Breaking Bad." While keeping mum on footage from the series, this teaser trailer features Walter White (Bryan Cranston) eerily reading the ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter John Fuller is both a well-published poet and and a well-tested critic of contemporary poetry. This new book gets to grips with the ...

Last night wasn’t the first time Breaking Bad has used a ten-cent word for an episode title (see: last week’s mouthful, “To’hajiilee”) but, for those who didn’t pay attention during English Poetry 101 ...